File spoon-archives/seminar-14.archive/marx-bhaskar_2001/seminar-14.0101, message 32


Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:20:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Ruth Groff <rgroff-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: events


Hi all,

I think that Viren raises an important point in flagging the concept of an
event.  

Until recently I thought of it more or less the way Hans says.  But there
are places, especially when RB is talking about the inadequacy of conceiving
of laws as the constant conjunction of events, where I think that the
discussion only makes sense if he is read as meaning "perceived event".  (To
the extent that the argument is an argument against empiricism, Hans, don't
you think it really *has* to mean "perceived?"  I mean, what other kind of
event is there, for the kind of phenomenalist empiricist that Bhaskar takes
himself to be addressing?)  This of course has implications for whether
"events" belong in the domain of the actual or the empirical (to switch
typologies for a moment).

I guess I think that he's not perfectly consistent about this.

r.



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